Re: CD writing in future Linux (stirring up a hornets' nest)

On Sun, Feb 12, 2006 at 08:46:33AM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 12, 2006 at 01:04:51PM +0100, Olivier Galibert wrote:
> > You need to call udevinfo for that, or parse /dev/.udev/*.  Do you
> > think it would be possible to have hotplug/udev/whatever exists in the
> > future to give that information back in the kernel and have it appear
> > in sysfs?
> 
> No.  Why would it when it is very simple to query udevinfo for that?

In order not to depend on a userland package for the kernel service of
device enumeration?  It's udevinfo now, what will it be in two years?

  OG.



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